blue-spotted wood dove (Turtur afer) Description
Chalcopelia afra and Chalcopelia chalcospilos
Date 1912
Source Ibis 1912 http://www.archive.org/stream/ibis961912190712brit#page/n90/mode/1up
Author Henrik Grönvold (1858–1940) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Gr%C3%B6nvold
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChalcopeliaGronvold.jpg
The blue-spotted wood dove (Turtur afer) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Order: Columbiformes, Family: Columbidae, Genus: Turtur, Species: Turtur afer (Linnaeus, 1766).
